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Originally Posted by pwalker8
When I had a nook (I eventually gave it to my sister), the selection was much worse than the Kindle store. I use to go the B&N. I would see a book that I wanted (usually SF&F or history), I would look to see if it was in the nook store. Most of the time it wasn't. Then I would look in the Kindle store. 90% of the time, I found it there. B&N missed out on a lot of sales to me that way.
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That's weird. The vast majority of the books at a Barnes and Noble store (not counting the discount section*) are Big Five books and Amazon and B&N should both have them to this day.
Where I think Amazon pulled ahead is in indies and as Nook lost relevancy small presses stopped paying attention to them.
*most of the books in the discount section, not counting the remainders, are books published by B&N themselves. Some are available as Nook books, but many are not. I think that's because they tend to be reprints and paper rights are easier to secure than ebook rights.